The Library of Babeltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80301222006-12-27T20:10:52ZBlogger

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falseChad2006-12-27T15:07:00-05:002006-12-27T20:10:52Z2006-12-27T20:10:52Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-116725025259797091This Is Not the Blog You're Looking ForWell, OK, it may be the blog you're looking for, but the blogging you're looking for isn't here any more. I've folded the booklog posts in with my other blog, Uncertain Principles, some months back. I just keep forgetting to post a pointer here to indicate it.
If you're only after booklog stuff the posts are tagged with a "[Library of Babel]" in the title, and they can be found in the booklogfalseChad2006-05-14T16:40:00-04:002006-05-14T21:11:59Z2006-05-14T21:09:38Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-114764097859705079The Tyranny of the NightI put up a post over at my other blog asking for opinions on which of the many books waiting to be reviewed on this sadly neglected booklog should come first, and the top vote-getter was Glen Cook's The Tyranny of the Night, so it will be the first of (hopefully) several new posts here.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (who edited this book for Tor) made a comment a while back that they had great hopesfalseChad2006-03-22T11:22:00-05:002006-03-22T16:23:42Z2006-03-22T16:23:42Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-114304462217087514Die, Spammers, DieWe've been suffering from a massive comment spam attack this morning. Comments are temporarily disabled until we can find a solution.
We apologize for the inconvenience.falseChad2006-03-04T21:50:00-05:002006-03-05T03:16:20Z2006-03-05T03:16:20Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-114152858040255525The Ghost BrigadesThe last of the Boskone-themed book log posts for this year is John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades, a sort-of sequel to Old Man's War (same universe, different characters). I wasn't on any panels with John, but I did hang out with him a bit, and I bought the book there, so I'll add it in to the general Boskone blogging blitz.
The Ghost Brigades takes up an idea that's set up in Old Man's War, butfalseChad2006-03-04T21:20:00-05:002006-03-05T02:49:59Z2006-03-05T02:49:59Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-114152699919404272PermanenceThird in the series of books I read to learn about my panelists for "Is Science Fiction Necessary?" is Permanence by Karl Schroeder. This is a few years old, now, but we had a copy on the to-be-read shelf, which I started before Boskone, and finished the day after the con.
One of the cover blurbs drops the phrase "Heinlein Juvenile," and that's not a bad description of the feel of the book. ThefalseChad2006-03-04T20:31:00-05:002006-03-05T03:30:16Z2006-03-05T02:19:30Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-114152517001979749Crystal RainThe second book read in my attempt to learn about the "Is Science Fiction Necessary?" panelists was Tobias Buckell's Crystal Rain. John Scalzi had said nice things about it on the Whatever, and I read the Prologue in the store and was hooked.
I heard Toby describe it as "a Caribbean steampunk space opera novel" or something like that, and that's a pretty good description. It's a lost colonyfalseChad2006-03-04T20:03:00-05:002006-03-05T01:31:19Z2006-03-05T01:31:19Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-114152227968961506The SteerswomanA couple of weeks back, Kate and I made our annual trip to Boskone, where once again, I was on a few program items one of those was a panel with the slightly alarming title "Is Science Fiction Necessary?", which I was slated to moderate, no less. I was pretty worried about that one (which seemed to have great potential to just fizzle out), so I made it a point to seek out and read books by myfalseChad2006-02-04T16:49:00-05:002006-02-04T22:18:39Z2006-02-04T22:18:39Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-113909151965212319Competent Neo-HeinleinThe post title is my two-word review of Elizabeth Bear's debut trilogy, Hammered, Scardown and Worldwired (OK, one of the words is a hyphenated neologism-- deal with it). These get thrown into a single entry both because I have a huge backlog, and also because they're really one book. In fact, I strongly recommend not starting the first one without having the first one close to hand.
The booksfalseChad2005-12-04T08:44:00-05:002005-12-04T14:19:08Z2005-12-04T14:19:06Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-113370594651079556Gateway to the Epics?In a comment to the previous post, Sean M. writes:
So, I know that there are probably lists out there like this, but is there any long-epic series that a beginner should start with?
I have never really read a long series of fantasy books, but I like the idea of it. I would start with the Wheel of Time series, but just about half of the people I hear mention it say bad things about it.
It's afalseChad2005-12-03T10:27:00-05:002005-12-03T16:11:12Z2005-12-03T16:08:52Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030122.post-113362613293192668Another Couple of Bricks in the WallLook! It's not dead!
I have been reading stuff in the last two months, I just haven't been good about blogging it. I'll try to get a few posts up here this weekend, though, so I won't feel like quite so much of a slacker.
The process can be sped up a bit by combining together two books in the Giant Epic Fantasy category: the latest books from Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin. It's a naturalfalse